If David Davis is squirming now, wait until he remembers his BBC interview about the Brexit impact reports [VIDEO]

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Brexit Secretary David Davis is in hot water over the so-called Brexit ‘impact assessments’. Because on Wednesday 6 December, he admitted that they didn’t actually exist. But unfortunately for him, a clip from a BBC interview in June seems to suggest otherwise.

“There’s nothing”

Davis told the Commons Brexit Committee that impact assessments for how Brexit would affect different areas of the UK economy didn’t exist. He said:

The sectoral analysis is a wide mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses, contained in a range of documents developed at different times since the referendum… It is not, nor has it ever been, a series of discrete impact assessments examining the quantitative impact of Brexit on these sectors…

…we currently expect this [providing the information to the committee] to be no more than three weeks.

Three weeks would have meant the government would have produced the analyses on 28 November. But they now don’t exist. And in Prime Minister’s Questions, May had to prop up Davis’s position when replying to a question from Jeremy Corbyn:

What can you say?

It is a damning indictment of the government that a serving cabinet minister can be so openly chaotic. But it is perhaps comedy writer David Schneider who best sums up the situation:

I tend to try and put a satirical spin on events, but when you see the deceit, the incompetence, the unabashed betrayal of all our futures by David Davis here, what can you say? #PMQShttps://t.co/pCbzqLCAc8